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Floating-point arithmetic (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by JPDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

If I can't be a number, none of you can!

(See also cascading nulls)

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

for the math homies, you could say that NaN is an absorbing element

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Kerbal Space Program your ships sometimes catch the NaN virus. If one fuel tank level is reading NaN then whatever you do DON'T try and fill it from another (full) tank. I'm not sure if it can spread to physics (thrust, mass, etc) EDIT: Yes it can happen to physics, oh dear.

I wonder what would happen if you landed a NaN-infected spaceship on a planet.